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Glossary

Daypart

A daypart is a defined block of the day used in media planning to allocate ad inventory and report performance. Standard dayparts vary by media but generally include early morning, daytime, prime-access, primetime, late-fringe, late-night, and overnight. In bar TV advertising, dayparts are typically aligned to viewing patterns: lunch (11–2), happy hour (4–7), primetime (7–11), late-night (11–close).

Dayparts are how media buyers slice the twenty-four-hour clock for planning, buying, and reporting. The traditional broadcast dayparts — early morning (6–9), daytime (9–4), prime-access (4–7), primetime (7–11), late-fringe (11–1), overnight (1–6) — were built around television viewing patterns. Modern DOOH and bar TV media adopt similar splits but adjust for venue context.

In Highfloor's bar TV network the practical dayparts are: lunch (11–2), early happy hour (4–7), late happy hour (7–10), primetime sports window (varies by season and league — Sunday afternoon NFL, Monday/Thursday/Sunday primetime NFL, weeknight NBA/MLB), late-fringe (10–1), late-night (1–close where applicable). Sports calendars overlay daypart planning in markets where the audience is heavily indexed to sports — Phoenix and Boston both run sports-weighted daypart strategies as a default.

Daypart strategy for bar TV is one of the most important campaign-design decisions. The same venue performs very differently across dayparts: a sports bar at Sunday 1 p.m. delivers a different audience composition and density than the same bar at Tuesday 11 p.m. Highfloor builds the daypart weighting per flight against the brand's vertical and the metro's audience patterns.

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